My friend used to believe that eating smarties would make you smarter and one day she was eating them at school and since we weren't allowed to eat candy in school the teacher told her to stop eating them. She replied "But they make me smart"
A childhood belief about sweeties

others believed things like this
- I didn't mind eating lambs brains when I was a kid because I thought it would make me smart.Anon
- My friend believed that eating bread crusts or eating mustard will give you curly hair.— Linda from Southern California
- I used to believe eating fish enables me to live underwater and eating veggy makes me prettier!— Melody
- I used to believe that eating too many tomatoes could make you pregnant.— Mariah
- I used to believe that eating vegetables would make me particularly tall— Aleksandr
- i used to think that eating carrots would make your eyes glow in the dark— nik